Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[QuackerJackFarms]

Here I is!

Not a very talkative group tonight. Where is QJ?

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

Hi there....what is this thread about? Chickens? Ducks? chat?

Yes.

Welcome!

 

[un-named543]

Yes.

Welcome!

It won't let me access a big smiley face..........

 

[Marty1876]

Seems to be about everything poultry, and the folks who hatch them!

 

[stillmecle]

Hi there....what is this thread about? Chickens? Ducks? chat?

We talk about ducks, chickens, geese, kids, family, friends just about anything that comes to mind. Pull up a chair and chat with us un-named.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

OK. My topic tonight is goose egg candling.

After tonight I'm not candling for another week. I'm tired of it. Here goes...

I candled from the top with a tiny LED flashlight that you get at TSC. That's the trick. Totally different pic. Keep in mind this flashlight was random in the house and I need to get one that's stronger.. Here is what I saw.

Sebbie Group #1 (Celtic): In one egg I see a dancing baby! In the other egg I see what I'm 99% sure is a dancing baby. I couldn't see defined goosey, but there is so much movement in there. It kinda looks like a black mass that is swirling around. Does that make sense? I see no defined veins, but I can see lines. Like maybe if my flashlight were stronger those lines would be red.

Sebbie Group #2 (Ebay): Nothing. I see nothing. No veins, no dot, no baby, nothing. This is day 6 for them. The yolk looks that same golden color. Like the deep bronze. One of the air cells is detached in one. It looks like both of these eggs are filled with water. Really, there is fluid sloshing around in there. It's weird.

In conclusion: #1 Geese are complicated. #2 If both these make it, they will probably be males. LOL. And #3 I will only buy eggs from Celtic from now on. Celtic-when you have 2 eggs that are un-related or heck related for all I care, I want on the list.


ETA, typos.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

We talk about ducks, chickens, geese, kids, family, friends just about anything that comes to mind. Pull up a chair and chat with us un-named.

Make sure it's a comfy chair. We talk a lot.

 

[stillmecle]

Must be a tough life!

Seems pretty fun to be a hatching lady. After all the pics of eggs, I want to go candle mine now!! I usually wait, but since everyone else does it, It would be fun to know a little sooner if they are starting!

Hows fluffys new family coming on?

Nothing yet. I thought I heard peeping earlier but it was just fluffy. LOL I wish they would hatch. I hate waiting and waiting and waiting,

 

[stillmecle]

Hey SM, isn't Fluffy an Appenzeller? She should only get about 4 lbs., so that won't be too bad when she flies up on your head when she's grown.

Appenzeller or Appenzell
FS OKb OKs PP​

Spitzhauben (Pointed Hood)
&
Barthuhner (Bearded)
Spitzhauben rare; Barthuhner practically unknown
8%/0% (spitz/barth)
Unchanged since 2003 4 lb/1.8 kg​

APA: Not recognized
PC: Soft Feather Light
Layer
Fancy:
Crested
or Bearded​

Developed in Switzerland centuries ago. The name is thought to derive from the lace bonnets of the Appenzeller region.​

white​

horn, V-shaped, duplex white skin,
blue shanks blueish white​

can be broody very cold hardy,
except may have problems
with freezing crest feathers early maturing​

not very tolerant of close confinement; flyer; active, flighty

The national breed of Switzerland.​

This is what the seller told me:
The rooster is an Appenzeller spitzenhauben and the hens are salmons favorelles and japanese/auraucana mixes

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Well, your eggs are from Dahlia, so you could have eggs from Sassy, Chloe or Peaches and be unrelated. Now you need to remember this if I do happen to have eggs in the future. However we have another chatter here ahead of you.

Oh and by the way, white Sebbies hatch with color on them incase you didn't know this.